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Another installment in the saga.

Maybe following up with an Indian, Korma please, but protect the naans...

The babies are growing! Lots of hissing and wing-flapping going on today with the geese and swans, got quite heated at times.

Lovely to see nature doing its thing.

I’m sat in my home office listening to the birds - I miss it when I have to go into proper office .

Lots of ducklings, goslings and cygnets on the lake by me but the dog seems to spark a huge panic so I can never get a good photo! I overheard a parent telling their child that the cygnets were called swanlets!

Have to say I’d love to do more exercise but because the GP can’t treat my anaemia then it’s pretty much out of the question. Iron tablets make me horribly sick and because there is no underlying cause I can’t be referred for an iron infusion. I can manage to walk the dog at a reasonable pace so we do about 10k steps a day but there’s no energy left for anything else. Which also means I generally can’t be bothered to cook for myself!

I enjoyed nature on my run this week. Normally I'd go for home, but I drove a few miles and explored a bit beyond my usual zone. It was very pretty. After getting through this time last year on long walks and running, I've had a bit of nature fatigue.

We're getting a change of scenery next week. The tent is coming out... sea air and mountains here we come! I hope it shifts the mental funk. I'm sick of the sight of the house and have no motivation to get it properly tidy. I need to get DH to agree on getting some visitors inside the house as that's my best motivator! He's just had his second vaccine so might be a bit more amenable after our trip away.

Maybe that's what I need. I don't, no, let me be honest, I can't drive (dyspraxia and no peripheral vision in one eye) so I have to rely on public transport. Which I am currently afraid of going on due to advertisements plastered on bus sides about what a terrible person you might be if you have a bare face. And I can't face (sorry!) being turned away after I pluck up the courage to try.

Checking in, missed you lot.

Ah ISaySteadyOn it's so rubbish that so many people are scared of going out because of being maskless. If I see someone not wearing one in a shop or on the train/bus I just tend to think they are exempt and carry on with my day. Plus to be honest like most people I think as soon as they aren't mandatory I will not be wearing mine!! Good to see you back Taswama
I normally don't mention my weight on these threads, or indeed Mumsnet in general as I think there's a weird attitude to fatness here. I am fat though and a type 2 diabetic so that's why I was classed as CEV earlier on this year. I have spent years trying to lose weight but fall down often, this year I have barely tried at all because food has been a comfort when other things weren't available to me. Thank God I am teetotal as otherwise my alcohol consumption may have gone out of control too!

I exercised yesterday with a pushchair, forgotten how unwieldy they are going round town up and down pavements good for the muscles though. It was hot yesterday so thought I would wear a dress which meant shaving my legs for the first time this year, gawd they're so white I usually have a tan by now. Vitamin d levels must be very low this year. I have noticed very few folks wearing masks in the street just hanging around their necks to wear in the shops. It's good too find parking hard, people wombling around just the hum of life again

As a teacher I think schools have a massive role to play in getting children loving exercise for life, or at least not hating it. A role that for me and many others particularly with dyspraxia they absolutely failed in for a long time. I hated sport and it was only for those who made the 1st team anyway. If you were lanky and uncoordinated you got to tidy the PE cupboard instead. I still remember feeling completely shocked when I got an athletics award for my high jump though. I don't know who was more surprised, me or the teachers, but being nearly 6 foot having just turned 12 might have had something to do with it!

I'm choosing schools for DS now (out here it's all private so we are lucky to get a choice) and schools with A, B and C teams are high on our list because DS is following in the lanky genetics (over 99 percentile for height!) but I hope that no one makes him hate sports the way I did. If he is crap but enthusiastic and still encouraged I will be happy.

I suppose the other problem is funding. But im sure the government would save a fortune off later ill-health by sorting it early on. They showed so many positive signs around the 2012 Olympics but then they tailed off and gave up.

I agree that schools can be very influential on exercise, although I hated the team sports we did at school (netball, hockey etc) and am a keen runner and cyclist now.
Funding can be an issue, but something like the daily mile shouldn't cost anything and I don't understand why more schools don't do it. Unfortunately DS's school is one of those, I did ask a few years ago and got a waffly non-answer back as to why it wasn't feasible. We did the daily mile before the schoolday started during the first lockdown and having has some fresh air and exercise certainly helped ME!

I was favourably impressed when a friend's DD told me they'd done dancing for one PE lesson (secondary). I think it's good (as far as practical) to offer a wide choice ways to keep active, not just sports.

I remember in y5 being threatened with extra PE with the 4th years (y7) if I didn't finish my work by break time. The dire threat worked! I remember the outcry that it wasn't fair and they'd love extra PE but my teacher said that I didn't and it was the worst punishment she could think of.

I always did OK with individual gymnastics/ dance type stuff (unless it involved climbing up a horse bigger than me...) but anything involving teams, bats, balls and running was an anethema to me. Rounders was a special form of torture and I never understood how getting changed, lining up, swinging a bat while ducking from a flying hard object, staggering to first post and dawdling back to the bench constituted as exercise!

I got the DCs into things like junior parkrun and gymnastics and swimming early to make sure that they could hold their own in PE. DS2 is naturally sporty, but DS1 has dyspraxia (I think I can guess the genes on that one...) and starting off with that extra input on coordination and knowing he can run helps a lot. He's actually one of the fastest in his class which helps counter his slower processing. I'm very proud that he's not the total liability that I was.

To be fair, in my supply days I often encountered secondary PE managed a hell of a lot better than in my days only a decade earlier. Sets and not allowing favourites to cherry pick their teams makes a big difference. The extra lap thread makes for sad reading in 2021!

I have developed an allergy to the ibruprofen gel The skin on my shoulder is peeling along with the skin on my right hand. Pharmacist has told me to stop using it. So that joins my happy allergy list along with penicillin co codamol bananas Ralgex and amoxcillyn. So looking forward to the strip wash beside the bath later. As ive got to give my leg and shouder a rest ive decided not to get in it until Monday.

Ouch! Not what you needed.
DM struggles with ibuprofen in tablet and gel. Paracetamol is about her only practical option for regular pain relief, which is not ideal when full of arthritis.

(After years of exercise I'd better have nice dense bones! It is one of my motivations)

Been eating out properly for the first time. The pub system was a bit awkward at first. We ate in then took the drinks out. Thd DCs had a great romp around the play area at that point. Sitting out is lovely when you chose to do itvon a mild evening!
Inside was dairly quiet, but it has a good outdoor space. A lot of people have gone elsewhere for the week/ weekend anyway.

Seaside was beautiful yesterday. Busy and mostly maskless other than the poor hospitality workers who have to wear them.

I also hated pe at school, I was useless, slow and uncoordinated. I didn’t exercise until my 40s and prior to that I was a party girl drinking too much and eating whatever I wanted. Like most ‘changed people’ I’m now far too evangelical about exercising and diet. I started with C25K and Jillian Michaels, and low glycaemic load (which is the diet recommended to benefit type 2 diabetes)

Off to look for dolphins later today. Hope everyone gets to enjoy some sunshine and fresh air.

Just got rid of one set of grandchildren, another one coming in a minute. He's decided he wants to go bat hunting again, so we're prepared with meal worms to feed to the fish, and then chuck some up in the air to see if the bats catch them. Should be fun! He'll be late to bed as it's not dark until 9.30, so hopefully he'll sleep in in the morning ( doubt it!)

Hi All! I live near the coast and it's beautiful and busy today. Which is lovely. But it also means my social media is full of the hysterical claiming "covid must be over" because the beach is "rammed".

Nowt like people who are out complaining about people being out to put a smile on my face.

I hope everyone is having a lovely day. It boosts morale to hear it.

I am in bed ill with an old fashioned fever which I caught from DD2. But I have read books,slept and DH has looked after everybody so it has not been a bad day.

Hope you're feeling better soon @ISaySteadyOn

We were at the beach today as well. The only masks we saw were 3 littering the coastal path and two on the chin / under the nose of two people aged 20 at most queueing outside at an outdoor cafe.
Was lovely.

I don't want to out myself, but I hugged people in the pub today who I hadn't seen in ages.

I'm such a rebel

We've had a good day too. Went out for a walk around the river/ canal for the first time with the DCs. Goodness knows why it was the first time, it's just one of those places nearby that slips under your radar. I thought about it a few months ago but thought it was not the best location if it was busy and people jittery about distancing. The DCs loved it and were full of questions.

We like doing outdoors stuff anyway, but it's much better doing it in the face of choice, on a lovely day compared to slogging it out in the winter.

Had a good and bad day yesterday, bad first was driving to the hospital for an MRI screening for my kidney lesion. The traffic was so bad going the other way. While I was getting zapped OH saw that there had been an eight car pile up. So when I came out we got a bit inventive to avoid the A55, we put into the map Wrexham to Ruthin, then Ruthin to Denbigh, then Denbigh to St. Asaph, then St. Asaph to Betws yn Rhos, we avoided the A55 altogether the only hold ups were tractors with all their accessories. it was a beautiful day we saw so much of the countryside it was quite lovely. We then went to a restaurant and had a damn good early evening meal with wine and went home.

Today I thought I would enjoy the garden this afternoon but the house behind us has brought out the chain saw, strimmer so maybe not

Had a very domestic day. We're off flocking tomorrow to spread the germs to the west. The rate are far too low over there The sunshine's been great for chugging through the laundry and the kitchen is pretty hygienic.

I thought the DCs swimming would be quiet... it was 1/3 of normal numbers in both classes! I did resist the urge to stay put in the sweltering spectator area and not go plunging off into the nearly empty main pool! I really need to sort some swimming for after half term. My running mojo is so flat and I need to do something different.

Can I ask a stupid covid question here, as it's a safe space....

I keep seeing that if covid is left to run riot then entire infrastructure will collapse.

Now, we have just been through 15 months of mass disease, illness and death on a global scale. Companies forced to close or on their knees due to illness and isolation and huge disruption. On a global scale.

It didn't collapse then, why would it now?